Thread: New D5

Somebody beat that with the ugly stick! No 'upgrade' for me.......

4 cylinder engine may have some poke but will it last as well as a 6 cylinder as it is presumably more stressed?

Brand recognition is a powerful entity..

BMW has always had it, Jeep has always had it, now LR has it...

Originally Posted by garrycol

Here is a pic lifted form the DiscoUK site of a D5 next to a DS



They basically look the same - almost exactly like the current US Explorer.

Why would you buy a base model D5 when the same looking DS has similar capabilities and a much cheaper price.

I really do think that LR has lost the plot with the new D5 - why make it look like everything else on offer in the lineup.

Garry

The DS is significantly smaller inside.

Originally Posted by Tombie

The DS is significantly smaller inside.

...and outside.

Originally Posted by garrycol

Maybe but ultimately it will - but my point is also why make the cars look the same to the passing glance.

My RRS is now 10 years old and I am thinking about a replacement in the next couple years - I like the current RRS but prices are not dropping and to get get full offroad spec is expensive - the DS/D5 does nothing for me (a full offroad Evoque if they ever came available would be good) so it looks like the RRS might have a few more years in it yet - I cannot see the D5 being as good a seller as the old D4 was.

Garry

Many said that when the D3 came out,replacing the D2a.

How wrong they were.

I recon the LR sales will be slow for the first half of the year,no Defender(which wasn't much of a seller anyway),and when the D4 runs out,no replacement for a good few months.
Same happened when they went from D1 to D2.

Originally Posted by garrycol

Here is a pic lifted form the DiscoUK site of a D5 next to a DS

They basically look the same - almost exactly like the current US Explorer.

Why would you buy a base model D5 when the same looking DS has similar capabilities and a much cheaper price.

I really do think that LR has lost the plot with the new D5 - why make it look like everything else on offer in the lineup.

Garry

Agree totally,a passing glance from Jo public,they look the same.Throw in a RRS,and a RR,they all look very very similar.

Too similar to me,they need their own individuality.

Something needs to really stand out,to separate one model from the other,apart from price,as with the current D4.

Time will tell i suppose,

Just my 2cents worth

Well, that picture above really is the DS on the photocopier and 125% enlargement, does seem a bit of a shame that the LR range seems to have lost the model individuality that existed................not sure if that is actually progress but that is where we are. Some of the technical changes are at least a big step in the right direction, I like what I see in the pictures but I for one can not wait to see it in the flesh and unless some unthinkably horrible event happens to the current D4 I am sitting very happily where I am.

Roll on the public release..................